11 Facts About Arlan Stangeland

Arlan Inghart Stangeland was an American politician from Minnesota.

Arlan Stangeland lost his campaign for reelection in the 1990 House election and subsequently retired from politics.

Arlan Stangeland married Virginia Stangeland and fathered seven children, two girls and five boys.

Arlan Stangeland was a long-time member of Our Savior's Lutheran Church.

Arlan Stangeland was a delegate to the Minnesota State Republican conventions from 1964 to 1968.

Arlan Stangeland served on the Barnesville, Minnesota school board and then as a member of the Minnesota House of Representatives before being elected to the US House of Representatives as the Representative from Minnesota's 7th congressional district in a special election to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Robert Bergland.

Arlan Stangeland sought election as a Republican to the 95th congress in a special election on February 22,1977, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Robert Bergland, who left the House to become US Secretary of Agriculture.

Arlan Stangeland campaigned "on the theme that the heavily rural northwestern Minnesota needed another farmer, like Mr Bergland, in Congress" and won the election, receiving 71,251 votes to Sullivan's 43,467.

In January 1990, it was reported that Arlan Stangeland had made several hundred long distance phone calls from 1986 to 1987 on his Minnesota House credit card to and from the residences of a female lobbyist from Virginia.

Nonetheless, his popularity sharply dropped and Arlan Stangeland lost the election to Democratic State Senator Collin Peterson, who had run against him twice before, nearly defeating him in 1986.

Arlan Stangeland died peacefully at his home on Lake Lizzie in Northwestern Minnesota, outside of Detroit Lakes, on July 2,2013.